Mel Kiper, draft expert. We hear those words a lot in the late-winter and early-spring months every year. Few names are more synonymous with the NFL draft, an event whose popularity and visibility have grown enormously over the past few decades. Kiper is legitimately the man most responsible for growing the size, reach, and resonance of the NFL draft as a major event on the American sports calendar.
As another NFL draft approaches, it’s hard to avoid wanting to know where Kiper has various prospects ranked. What is Kiper’s big board? How does he rank the quarterbacks and wide receivers? These are questions football fans will debate quite a lot over the next three months before the draft occurs.
Is Caleb Williams clearly better than Drake Maye and Jayden Daniels? Is Marvin Harrison Jr. still going to be the top receiver taken, or will Rome Odunze make a late surge up the draft board? Where is the premium left tackle ranked in the list of top NFL draft prospects? Where is the top pass rusher ranked among the elite players under consideration in the coming draft? Get an early sense of how Mel Kiper views these questions and more:
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